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An anti-traditionalist intelligentsia and government, it may be argued, continue to undermine America’s traditional civilization and regime.

The original studia humanitatis which arose in fifteenth century Italy was “a cultural revolution."

Sides for or against the new order were taken for millenarian and not simply economic reasons.

Everything I have seen of the Straussians over the years leads me to the unfortunate conclusion that they are agenda-driven political intellectuals.

Never does Green allow an early American leader to escape his carping scrutiny. He insists that George Washington was “an unmitigated snob whose personal integrity was protected by his social status at the top of the heap.”

Many autobiographies are written with an eye toward settling old scores, but this is not one of them. These memoirs are striking because of the absence of any rancor or bitterness toward old intellectual or literary adversaries.

The canon is necessarily developmental, and one system can be peremptorily displaced by another.

Introduction: Perennial Philosophy Historicized The mainstay of perennial philosophy is the problem of "the one and the many." In the…

Central to Federici’s analysis is the distinction he makes between competing concepts of democracy.

It may be possible to make Walsh’s hermeneutic inclusiveness work, but there is no evidence it does, and certainly not on the basis of his lavishing of liberal certificates upon a multitude of dead and living thinkers.

Professor Ryn ascribes too much philosophical and aesthetic baggage to those who simply craved material security and were not equipped to think about the larger questions.

There is much that is still alive in Santayana’s philosophical explication of Goethe’s Faust, especially Goethe’s appeal to the understanding to be derived from phenomena themselves.

We who worry along paths our ancestors took with surer steps, what is left to us? Is it to lie…